Topics
The topic areas covered by ICTIR include any topic of relevance to core IR and connections between IR and its neighboring disciplines such as the following. Evaluation expectations for ICTIR submissions are less demanding than in other IR conferences, but some degree of evaluation is still important.
IR theory and practice
New retrieval problems
Retrieval algorithm behavior analysis
Recommendation algorithm behavior analysis
Understanding IR models
Quantum IR or other non-conventional retrieval models and ranking
New evaluation measures, mathematical analysis of measures
New evaluation paradigms
User aspects of IR
Interactive and dynamic search
Information seeking
Modelling and simulation of information interaction
Contextual and personalized search
Search interfaces
Understanding context information
Understanding retrieval results
User modeling for ranking and evaluation
IR system architectures and scalability
Understanding IR system architecture
Efficient content representation
Compression for IR
String processing for IR
IR system scalability
Content representation and processing
Natural language processing for IR
Multimodal IR
Multilingual IR
Linguistic analysis
Text representation
Topic models
Machine learning for IR
Deep learning
Kernel methods
Markov decision processes
Online learning
Optimization
Hyper-parameter and model selection
Reinforcement learning
Applications of IR
Information extraction
Information fusion
Legal IR
Patent search
Search applied to the Internet of Things
Semantic search
Sentiment analysis
Social good and collaborative search
Voice and image search
Structured, semi-structured data and databases
Task-based and exploratory search
Web, digital libraries and social media search